Sentences with phrase «political money flows»
Other political money flows through trade associations in the U.S. such as the American Chamber of Commerce, which has already spent more than $ 21 million in campaign advertising this year, including $ 1.5 million on ads accusing Democratic Senator Mark Udall of driving up energy costs, largely in response to his refusal to support Republican demands for immediate approval of the Keystone pipeline.
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Tracing international flows of money could help reveal political crimes, expose acts of genocide and monitor whether sanctions are being respected.
British Columbians are still just scratching the surface of the international money flowing through the province's property market and political parties.
By enabling new flows of money, information and power on a world scale, the multinationals have succeeded in insulating themselves from both political and social constraints on their economic power, and thus have become an embodiment of the supreme value of economic efficiency over human values.
For the eight senators, the flow of money was in fact directed toward Mr. Flanagan's political allies, including three members of the Independent Democratic Conference, who collaborate with the Republicans to lead the chamber: Ms. Savino, José R. Peralta of Queens and David Valesky of Syracuse.
The measure is intended to reduce the flow of anonymous contributions, or «dark money,» flowing from donors through 501c (4) charitable groups in support of political campaigns.
«It is bad enough that the flow of political money into American campaigns grows bigger by the year — the 2012 elections were the costliest ever.
As part of his push to keep money flowing into Democratic campaign accounts before the midterms, President Obama has appeared at 49 fundraisers so far this year — 46 of which were for party committees or PACs that will spend the money on political campaigns this fall.
Meanwhile, the flow of political donations from centenarian Leonard Litwin's Glenwood slowed to a trickle following the arrests in Albany, and the real estate industry as a whole is falling behind in spending as hedge funds pump money into lobbying for education reform.
«If there is anyone who thinks money is only flowing from lobbyists to one political party, then they are fooling themselves.»
Fox urged House Democrats to oppose GOP amendments aimed at closing that loophole, but made no attempt to directly refute Republican arguments about the flood of «back door» money flowing through state political parties to candidates.
But because transfers between these various types of accounts aren't subject to limits, large amounts of money flow freely out of housekeeping accounts and into political accounts.
Additionally, several hedge fund managers whose political money has primarily flowed to charter school supporters in the past continued to remain active.
And the best thing Malloy can do for his political ambitions is to ensure that the money indeed flows in the right directions.
Lender lays out in stark detail the flow of money from the Sacklers to Governor Malloy's political operation.
Money flowed to policy groups on the right and left, funding research by scholars of varying political persuasions who promoted the idea of common standards.
«Given that billions of dollars are being disbursed,» says Dennis Van Roekel, president of the National Education Association, the country's largest teachers union, «it is reasonable that people are starting to raise concerns about how this flow of money is shaping our political debate about education reform and to ask if a handful of individuals are having undue influence in one of our nation's most important institutions.»
The campaign money from charter school advocates has been flowing into Malloy's political operation at record levels while Malloy's administration has been turning a blind eye to the fact that charter schools are violating Connecticut laws, regulations and policies.
All of the money has flowed through the political consulting company Global Strategies, the entity Malloy's top advisor, Roy Occhiogrosso, returned to after working in Malloy's office for two years.
But my takeaway was that, while LVLT continues to lose money and has basically done so since inception, it has a fabulous portfolio of assets that might, under certain operating and political conditions that I could imagine as possible, generate major cash flows.
In Liquidity inc., Steyerl makes one of her characteristic intellectual leaps and connects extreme financial events to extreme climate events: the jet stream of money changes direction when the Dow Jones collapses, then suddenly a gonzo weather forecaster, masked in black, is gesturing across the most political of politically geographical maps you ever saw — noting failed states and off - shore tax havens, isobars indicating flows of capital rather than weather fronts.
A lot more money, flowing from the political favors of tax - payer subsidized renewable energy into the pockets of billionaires, plus getting politicians to impose new environmental rules on fossil fuels and nuclear to make them wildly more expensive and billionaire renewable interests more competitive.